Trying to transfer songs to ipod...help!

I am trying to transfer my songs from itunes to my ipod but it keeps coming up as "attempting to copy to the disk failed. The disk could not be read from or written to"
I don't know why its not working... please help !

hope this helps
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301267

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